Feng Jun did not return quickly for a simple reason: as an outsider, he truly lacked the qualifications to enter the Spirit Plant Path's sacred grounds.
Quite a few people in the Spirit Plant Path knew him, but rules were rules. A Spirit Land used by Spirit Projection Stage cultivators naturally had to be protected from sabotage.
Feng Jun did not have the ability to damage the Spirit Land, but he possessed another ability—once he left a mark, he could return whenever he wished.
Many people spoke up for Feng Jun, saying that quite a few Spirit Plant Path disciples had benefited from him, but it was useless.
In particular, a Nascent Soul Intermediate Stage cultivator responsible for the matter, supposedly once one of Yi Jue's admirers, enforced the rules with an iron grip. His attitude was not especially bad, but he absolutely refused to make an exception.
Yi Jue had been so angry that she nearly attacked, but someone talked her down. Fortunately, the elder in charge emerged from seclusion two days later. Otherwise, it was hard to say how the situation might have developed.
Once they went directly to the Spirit Land for Divination, things became much simpler. Feng Jun took only half a day to calculate every possibility, then declared, "Even if the Spirit Plant Path invites me in the future... I'm not coming."
It was not that he hated the Spirit Plant Path. He simply disliked visiting the sacred grounds of sects. If not for Yi Jue's sake, he would never have come in the first place. Since someone had targeted him this time, he took the opportunity to make a harsh statement.
Yi Jue did not take it seriously. "Once I reach the Spirit Projection Stage, you can use my Spirit Land... What were the